bit and run Volume Two, finale

I'll keep this short. We have finally reached the end of bit and run Volume Two. This has been a journey for me, over this year with these two volumes of comics (Volume One and Volume Two) It's been a release, an exercise in color and shapes and humor. I've found what I was looking for with bit and run. I've throughly enjoyed my time with these comics and I'm pleased to think that they might have give you a smile as well. To close the comics I again wanted to do something different to make the ending, the "finale" of sorts, feel special and this time it's with a comic that has a slightly different tone. Like countless others, I love the Zelda series. I love it for many reasons but one that stands out to me is this -- beyond the adventure, beyond the puzzles is the subtle assertion that good will overcome evil. It might be a little silly to feel so serious about a game but that simple idea is central to what makes the story of Zelda work and that's not silly at all. I love it.

I hope this won't be the last time we let our powers combine. Take care,
Cory

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And for fun you can pick up a desktop wallpaper version of the top panel of the comic here.

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Maybe you're something like me, maybe you played (and loved) Pokémon Red back in 1998 but maybe you fell out of the series for a while, and like me, have recently found your way back in the form of the recent HeartGold or SoulSilver. Probably not, you've played and caught them all, haven't you? See, I spent a long time being intimidated by the overwhelming amount of new Pokémon that came out every generation. Even so, for some reason back a couple months, out the blue, I picked up HG.

I've truly enjoyed my time with it, getting back in, and one of the things I've found that I still get a ton of enjoyment out of is the "_________ has learned a new move!" moment. Every time I feel really excited to try out the absurd and inevitably brutal new move. It's a violent world, Pokémon, but you know that neither we nor our beloved pocket monsters would have it any other way.



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Hey everyone, I wanted to give you guys a little bonus comic for today (see below) I don't think it quite makes a stand-alone comic but as a bonus it seems in my mind to work. It must be so difficult to eat or drink anything with those masks. How would you get around that? With a straw I guess, I don't know. Enjoy! - Cory


Oh, and as if that's not enough, I did a Flipnote version of the bonus comic as well. I just got a DSi XL for my birthday (I've worn my old DS into the ground) and Flipnote was the thing I was most looking forward to playing with. I hope to give you guys more of these in the future.

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Hey everyone, it's good to be back with bit and run! As I said just about every week during the first run of comics, it's a pleasure to make these. I get a ton of enjoyment out it and I'm very glad if you guys are able to enjoy them as well. I wanted to give you a little bonus for this week, but first a little background on this "bit and run" project -- some of you may remember back in January of this year why I started making these comics. I was in the midst of large client project in the fall/winter of 2009 and I was doing something like 15, 17 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 months. I found that I couldn't sleep after working that long, my mind buzzing with everything I wasn't done with, so to help keep my sanity I'd play a little Mario before I crashed for the night. Mario 2, Mario 3 mostly. I found it absolutely decompressed me. From there, in the early hours of the morning I began to think up comics and started jotting them down while playing. I have no idea why. I don't know where they came from. After a few nights of this I amassed a folder full of quickly scrawled comics and doodles. To contrast making a comic in say an hour or two with a months long project that never seemed complete brought me the satisfaction I was missing. From there we've got bit and run Volume One. So all that to say I wrote all of these comics (Vol. 1 and 2) many months ago.

Now with Volume Two I'm going back to that folder but I'm trying a few new things; spending a little more time on the drawing, pushing the 8-bit palette some, rewriting and adding new comics, and like with today's for example, I made a bonus. Below you'll find an "extended" cut, so to speak. I went ahead with the original version (above) but I decided to do a little extra with the same idea. Certainly the original is my preferred version but after Mario's sentence in the third panel of the extended comic below came to me and struck me so dang funny I had to finish the whole thing. And I like the way the Thwomp looks in panel 2. So, long story short, in the end I wanted to give you guys both. I hope you enjoy.

And one last thing, in case it hasn't been clearly stated yet -- we're back for another three months of Fridays with these comics. August 6th - October 29th. Enjoy!

Cory

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You can bit and run but you can't hide. "bit and run" has returned!

Every Friday for the next 3 months I'll be posting a new Nintendo themed comic.

If you'd like to catch up to speed you can read my initial post way back in January explaining the inception of "bit and run" and where it all came from.

Here's to another volume of comics!

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Check out all 13 Volume One comics below!

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